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What everyone thinks of lineage II...
Kerbouchard
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hey, i'm in need of some help. I'm a SWG refugee, and so far no MMO has really appealed to me crafting and role-playing wise, and a buddy of mine told me to try lineage II. My question is; What is eveyone's opinion on lineage II? think it will appeal to a SWG vet?
-Kerbouchard
-Kerbouchard
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But it won't appeal to a SWG vet, far from it. the game is completely diffrent.
I think its better if you have a look at Saga of Ryzom, or maybe EVE.
But don't play Lineage 2 expecting a SWG. you will be dissapointed.
I can't give you the SWG angle (never played it).
Lineage II is a pretty hard core PvP game. I found the character models, the animations and the game world beautiful and well done. Guilds can control Cities and then in turn set taxes on NPC merchants. When you die to a Player character you have a chance to drop any item in your inventory (or equipped). You also take an experience hit (which in a game that is pretty hard to level hurts considerably). Chinese loot farmers were often complained about when I played but I treated them like NPC mobs with uber AI. You never knew when one was going to try to gank you. The bots were a little more aggravating. Despite some of these shortcommings. Lineage is in my top 5 mmorpgs of all time.
I had pretty much the same experience as EvilC... nobody wants to be a healer in a group, while I did play as that sometimes it was not fun for me and few people wanted that powerful battle mage only.
The community by and large is decent but there are a lot of real @!$holes there also..but what games doesn't have those.
On a scale of 1-10, I give it a solid 7.5......
great graphics in the game
Witty saying to amuse you goes here.
thanks for the imput
-Kerbouchard
Which FF Character Are You?
Hope you like to grind, because thats all you'll ever do in L2. Economy is fubar. Open PVP, except no one wants to PVP because they're afraid of losing their equipment. In short, a waste of time.
Which FF Character Are You?
Check out the library at http://www.lineage2.com/
Make sure understand how PvP works and how the economy works (manor system) also read up on all the new player benefits. Look over the classes at level 20 and at lvl 40 so you have an idea where to start.
Check out the L2 forums. They are a better source of info then this board. http://boards.lineage2.com/ubbthreads.php
No house building, sorry. L2 is a mass combat game, its not a sandbox.
Nope. You can only 'own' one of the castles - Aden, Giran - and only as part of a clan, after successfully sieging a castle, which you then have to defend against future sieges. However owners of castles may charge taxes in certain towns.
L2 doesn't have any housing. The crafting system is also kinda painful. It's very much a group game (you can solo but it's not half as fun or effective). I don't think there is a single really soloable character aside from summoners, and maybe shilien knights.
I tried and liked both healer (elven oracle) and nuker (elf wizard), though my main chars were bladedancer and swordsinger (buffer/fighter classes).
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Waiting on Guild Wars 2
L2 is a terrible game... a terrible game that could have been quite good. I have seen a game so overrun by bots and farmers... and in a game where gear is key, and gold is the key to getting good gear, having lots of gold farmers selling on ebay is a disaster. The monitors did virtually nothing to control this, you would see a bot, report it, and the bot would still be there doing the same thing a week later. You would see a player doing exploits, report it, and nothing would happen, and the players would just laugh at the people reporting them.
The PvP component is broken - because if you attack someone, you can be attacked yourself and are likely to drop items - items you worked weeks to afford to buy. So instead of fighting, people would have alts they would log on to attack you, hoping that if/when you attacked back, their friends would jump you and take your dropped items.
And the community was the most immature, pvp punk community you can imagine. Although in saying that, I realize that a good portion of the mmorpg.com crowd would fit right in
Elladan - ESO (AD)
Camring - SWTOR (Ebon Hawk)
Eol & Justinian - Rift (Faeblight)
Ceol and Duri - LotRO (Landroval)
Kili - WoW
Eol - Lineage 2
Camring - SWG
Justinian (Nimue), Camring - DAoC
I say try it out, but give it more than just a few hours, try it for a few weeks.
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I did'nt like the graphics...sorry not into young girls. Other then that I liked the way you could progress, not too much into grind 1-10 seemed to be set up just right. spells were so-so. weapons and armor were good. If you did'nt pay attention some PK'er would come buy and kill you to quickly, but the rest of the comunity was pretty decent.
Overall I liked L2. I played it for 5 months from the day it was released. The game is a hardcore MMO, most hardcore I have played. If you play L2, plan on a 4 year timeframe for finishing 1 character. Yes, that is 4 years. The grind is unbelievable. You'll spend months using the same gear until you can get new stuff. You'll have to kill the same monsters so many times that it ends up being monotonous.
Lacks item diversity.
Grind is unbelievable.
Join now and you are 2 years behind everyone else.
Otherwise, it has nice graphics and is a solid game. Entertaining for awhile.
1. Players do NOT drop anything when die to another players. The chance of dropping items in such situation is 0% ! Players do have a chance to drop stuff when die to a MOB, and it is completely random!
The PKers, if they kill players who did not fight back. Those pkers' names will become red, and when these red name Pkers die, they have a high chance to drop items.
2. Players lose 4% xp when die. Same 4% apply to both dying to player or a mob. If you respawn to the nearest village, you will lose this 4% xp for real. If you get a % revive from a healer, you get some XP back. The higheset % revive is 90%. And if your clan is in a clan war with another clan, you lose only 1% xp per death when you die to the enemy clan. You still can use % revive to save more XP. Clan hall owning clans can respawn inside clan hall for a 50% rez, so they basicly only lose 0.5% xp from clan war by respawning. If they have a high level correctly setup healer, they can still use 90% rez and lose only 0.1% xp per death in clan war.
[quote[Originally posted by r0hn
Overall I liked L2. I played it for 5 months from the day it was released. The game is a hardcore MMO, most hardcore I have played. If you play L2, plan on a 4 year timeframe for finishing 1 character. Yes, that is 4 years. The grind is unbelievable. You'll spend months using the same gear until you can get new stuff. You'll have to kill the same monsters so many times that it ends up being monotonous.
Lacks item diversity.
Grind is unbelievable.
Join now and you are 2 years behind everyone else.
Otherwise, it has nice graphics and is a solid game. Entertaining for awhile.[/quote]
First hit level 75 was 7 months since Open Beta.
And now there are lots lots lots of level 75+, and it's only 2 years. Many people actually PvP a lot, which they lose lots of XP in process. If you don't PvP until max out, you can do it in 6 months if you do it right.
L2 is all about buffs. Buffs make huge difference. Buffed you can beat 3 unbuffed yourself. Back in the early days, everyone was low level. Healers level slow, which is why there was no high level buffs. One Perfect buffed 9-man party can easily beat 50 other same level players who aren't buffed.
Not to mention C3 introduced several new rules that make level much easier.
1. 30% duo bonus
2. 20% open field bonus
3. green mobs give full xp
He either didn't understand the PvP rules or didn't play long enough to figure them out.
Here are the PvP rulesets
http://www.lineage2.com/Knowledge/cp.html
Players who are not Red do not drop items in PvP. Its that simple.
The only way to get red is to kill another player who doesn't fight back.
So basically if you gank, you are rewarded with a very high chance of item drop, reds have the best loot in the game. Also killing Reds gives no karma/penalty.
L2 punishes gankers harshly.
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